A predominant complaint hanging over women’s tennis these days has to do with a dominant force.

We believe her name has been mentioned once or a million times before.

Serena Williams, as the argument goes, is simply too good for the sport’s own good.

Sixteen Grand Slam titles.

Fifty-four WTA crowns.

One Olympic singles gold and counting.

Zero chance of losing these days, it seems.

The current best women’s player on earth does occasionally come unglued, as witnessed in her fourth-round loss to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon last month. But generally speaking, she wins the tournaments she decides to enter, just as she did on Sunday at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, capturing her third crown in Canada.

An airplane roared overhead the Rexall Centre. Moments later, Williams served out the match against her helpless opponent, grabbed her latest winnings — $426,000, thank you very much, Canada! — and jetted off, ready to tackle Cincinnati, her next big tuneup before Flushing Meadows.

The number of sets she dropped in Toronto last week matched the shape of a donut. Nada. Zilch.

In fact, she needed only roughly an hour to close out all but one of her five matches in the Premier 5 U.S. Open Series event, which is one step below a major in terms of prize money.

Certainly, the case can be made that Williams’ steamrolling of opponents, notably over the past year, saps life out of the sport. And without a legitimate top-end rivalry on the circuit right now — think Graf-Seles, Evert-Navratilova, even Venus-Serena — it turns a game that lends itself to potentially thick plotlines into a festival of predictability.

Finding an argument to counter against the fact Serena has been in a league of her own over the past 15 months or so would be about as difficult as standing in front of one of her 200 km/h missiles.

A solution?

Take it for what it is, enjoy it, and watch the young players become better because of it.

While players seem to be going strong longer than ever before, at age 31, Williams won’t play forever. And eventually, a new Serena will arrive on the scene. Some are suggesting American Sloane Stephens, hanging inside the world top 20 at age 20, has the ability to eventually reach similar status of her elder American counterpart.

There are many other legitimate up-and-comers, including 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, who bowed out in the second round in Toronto but showed she is the real deal.

Like any sport, women’s tennis has its cycles. Some last longer than others.

We’re in the undisputed Serena Stage. Have been for more than a decade and likely will be for at least a few more years.

But while some may suggest Serena’s overwhelming dominance turned the Rexall Centre into the Wrecks All Centre by deflating the drama, it bares mentioning that we got a rare opportunity: To witness true athletic excellence, and given the timeframe, maybe even at the oldest No. 1 player in WTA history’s crescendo.

The big, bad U.S. Open is around the corner. Serena wants desperately to defend the thing while exorcising her Wimbledon demons, where she suffered her first loss since March.

Count on that happening.

Might as well enjoy the supremacy while it’s here, too.

According to Tennis Canada, the Rogers Cup in Toronto drew 112,354 fans over the course of the weeklong event. That’s a significant decrease from the 134,353 on hand in 2011, the last time the women’s event was in Toronto.

One reason for the lower turnout? Fewer seats.

The Centre Court stadium was reconfigured for this year’s event with grandstand seating taken down, meaning 2,300 fewer seats than previous years.

The plan was to help create what organizers called a more “intimate” setting.

“We expect (ticket sales) to be down based on the fact that the upper stands aren’t there,” Rogers Cup Toronto tournament director Karl Hale said. “We knew that we were going to take a hit to go forward with our event.”

It likely didn’t help matters when world No. 2 Maria Sharapova and world No. 3 Victoria Azarenka withdrew prior to the start of the event, and then Wimbledon champ Marion Bartoli retired from her first match of the tournament citing an injury.

“They are definitely fan favourites. We would have liked to have had them. It definitely impacts our sales,” Hale said. ““We still had 17 of the top 20, which is a great field in any right, even a G rand Slam.”

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Is Serena Williams too dominant for WTA?

A predominant complaint hanging over women’s tennis these days has to do with a dominant force.

We believe her name has been mentioned once or a million times before.

Serena Williams, as the argument goes, is simply too good for the sport’s own good.

Sixteen Grand Slam titles.

Fifty-four WTA crowns.

One Olympic singles gold and counting.

Zero chance of losing these days, it seems.

The current best women’s player on earth does occasionally come unglued, as witnessed in her fourth-round loss to Sabine Lisicki at Wimbledon last month. But generally speaking, she wins the tournaments she decides to enter, just as she did on Sunday at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, capturing her third crown in Canada.

An airplane roared overhead the Rexall Centre. Moments later, Williams served out the match against her helpless opponent, grabbed her latest winnings — $426,000, thank you very much, Canada! — and jetted off, ready to tackle Cincinnati, her next